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Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2023 Cassava productivity is threatened by viral diseases which have become the main phytosanitary problems in cassava farmers. Cassava brown streak disease (CBSD) is a devastating viral disease caused by Cassava brown streak virus (CBSV) and Ugandan cassava ...
Florence Mutave Munguti +6 more
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The Power of Unity: Collective Action and Smallholder Agricultural Performance in West Africa
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We analyze the impact of collective action through farmer‐based organizations (FBOs) on smallholders' farm performance and income inequality in Ghana, Benin, The Gambia, and Mali. We find that FBO membership increases cereal yield in Ghana and The Gambia, legume yield in Mali, ruminant numbers in Benin and The Gambia, and total farm income in ...
Emmanuel Donkor +3 more
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Convergent adaptations: bitter manioc cultivation systems in fertile anthropogenic dark earths and floodplain soils in central Amazonia [PDF]
, 2012 Shifting cultivation in the humid tropics is incredibly diverse, yet research tends to focus on one type: long-fallow shifting cultivation. While it is a typical adaptation to the highly-weathered nutrient-poor soils of the Amazonian terra firme, fertile
Alessandro Alves-Pereira +5 more
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ENERGY &ENVIRONMENTAL MATERIALS, EarlyView.A biomass‐based transparent bamboo composite doped with europium efficiently converts UV light into photosynthetically active red light, significantly enhancing plant growth and providing a sustainable alternative to petroleum‐based agricultural films. The rational design of sustainable light‐conversion agricultural materials is critical for enhancing ...
Dandan Xu +8 more
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Fungal Nail Infections amongst Cassava Farmers and Processors in Southwest Nigeria.
West African journal of medicine, 2022 Onychomycosis has been documented as an occupational dermatosis and dermatophyte infection of the nail is the most common infection amongst farmers. This study aims to determine the prevalence of fungal nail infections amongst cassava farmers and processors and identify causative organisms.Consenting individuals engaged in the processing of raw cassava
O O, Ayanlowo, R O, Oladele
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Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores how Afro‐Brazilian communities in Pernambuco respond to state‐led industrial development through culturally rooted practices of resistance and repair. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research in the coastal municipalities of Cabo de Santo Agostinho and Ipojuca, this study traces the effects of Brazil's large‐scale ...
Shelly Annette Biesel
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Food Biomacromolecules, EarlyView.Abstract Effects of bioactive components of white variety of Hibiscus sabdariffa (WHS) at 4 regimen and 2 regimen samples without WHS as reference carried out at room temperature for 14 days, with periodical stirring on pasting, antioxidant and solvent retention capacity properties of mature green breadfruit flour were studied.
Bode Daramola
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Open Agriculture, 2019 The study assessed the knowledge and control of cassava diseases by farmers in Delta State, Nigeria and the resultant implication for agricultural extension. Data were obtained from 569 cassava farmers by a simple random sampling technique.
Ebewore Solomon Okeoghene +1 more
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Studi Perbandingan Pola Alokasi Lahan, Pengeluaran Beras dan Pola Konsumsi Pangan antara Petani Ubi Kayu di Desa Pelaksana dan Non Pelaksana Program Mp3l di Kabupaten Lampung Selatan [PDF]
, 2014 The purposes of this research are to compare: the allocation of land of cassava, the spending of rice and food consumption patterns, between cassava farmers in the village of implementers and non-implementers of the MP3L (Model Pengembangan Pangan Pokok
Indiako, M. I. (M) +2 more
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Robust transformation procedure for the production of transgenic farmer-preferred cassava landraces [PDF]
Plant Methods, 2012 AbstractRecent progress in cassava transformation has allowed the robust production of transgenic cassava even under suboptimal plant tissue culture conditions. The transformation protocol has so far been used mostly for the cassava model cultivar 60444 because of its good regeneration capacity of embryogenic tissues.
Zainuddin, Ima M. +3 more
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